A secretive funding organisation in the United States that guarantees anonymity for its billionaire donors has emerged as a major operator in the climate "counter movement" to undermine the science of global warming, The Independent has learnt.

The Donors Trust, along with its sister group Donors Capital Fund, based in Alexandria, Virginia, is funnelling millions of dollars into the effort to cast doubt on climate change without revealing the identities of its wealthy backers or that they have links to the fossil fuel industry.

However, an audit trail reveals that Donors is being indirectly supported by the American billionaire Charles Koch who, with his brother David, jointly owns a majority stake in Koch Industries, a large oil, gas and chemicals conglomerate based in Kansas.

Millions of dollars has been paid to Donors through a third-party organisation, called the Knowledge and Progress Fund, with is operated by the Koch family but does not advertise its Koch connections.

7. They just don't get it do they...

They care only of today, and what comfort and delight their amassed zillions brings to them. They are greedy, selfish, ignorant, blind, and soulless bastards.

They are not exempt from the effects of climate change. It too will change their lives! They are turning this country into a dying nation. Drought and famine, wildfires and ravaging storms are the future they are bestowing on us.

Their money will not save them. Will they live longer than us...sure. Cowering in their bunkers as the Earth dies. They too will die, the same agonizing death that they, in their greed bestowed on this planet.

9. They plan to BUY their way out of any actual consequences for their greedy actions and leave the

11. Sure, kestrel. They will.

However they will not be able to buy their way out of a dead planet. When they have finished destoying the planet...they too will be destroyed. As I said they will live longer than us. However in the end they will die.

15. What's new? They also fund colleges, dictate who can be hired and what can be taught. Check it out.

16. It is clear...

99% of the misery and deception in this country can be laid directly and indirectly at the feet of these two evil, disgusting men. How in the world can two despicable creatures such as this be allowed to continue in this fashion? They are all that is corrupt and disgusting.

17. Mother Jones News has this to say in 2005

ExxonMobil has pumped more than $8 million into more than 40 think tanks; media outlets; and consumer, religious, and even civil rights groups that preach skepticism about the oncoming climate catastrophe. Herewith, a representative overview.

33. Isn't there some evil-villain deep-earth-pit we can drop these asshats in?

I'm so sick of the path of destruction these people leave for the rest of humanity. It's time someone somewhere changes the Power structure. It's context has become simply "Devastation and Destruction" in the wrong hands coupled with this kind of wealth. This abuse needs to stop and these abusers need to be gone after hard!